Hunterfly Road Houses, 1704 Bergen Street

1704R Bergen Street | Crown Heights | built 1830

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1662
March
The road these houses face is first recorded as the Old Path to the Bay
The landmark report on the houses at 1702-04 Bergen Street traces Hunterfly Road back to March 1662, when it appears in records as the Old Path to the Bay. The name Hunterfly is an English rendering of a Dutch phrase meaning a low, swampy place. The Dutch are said to have developed it mainly as a hay path.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1835
The section of Hunterfly Road in front of 1702-04 Bergen Street is closed, after the house was built
A map held by the Brooklyn Borough President's office indicates that the stretch of Hunterfly Road in front of the house at 1702-04 Bergen Street was closed under Chapter 132 of the laws of 1835. The commission's report says the house definitely pre-dates the closing and was built in line with the old road. The exact date the closing took effect cannot be determined.
“…the section of the road on which these houses stand was closed "pursuant to Chapter 132 of the laws of 1835.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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